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Hosted by YFU USA · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 36 episodes
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Life Exchanged: Stories of Understanding is a podcast by YFU USA sharing real stories from exchange students, host families, alumni, and volunteers. Each episode explores the impact of hosting, studying abroad, and volunteering through cultural exchange. Discover how global experiences build empathy, connection, and lifelong growth across borders.
YFU USA hosts Life Exchanged: Stories of Understanding, a society show with 36 episodes published.
What does it take to pack up your life at 17 and move to a completely different country for a year? In this episode of Life Exchanged: Stories of Understanding, host Kelsey Ross sits down with Lia, a German exchange stud
France's most famous gift to America arrived in 1886. Clara arrived in Minnesota in 2023. Both changed things forever. 🗽 What does it actually feel like to leave home for the first time — at 17, alone, for a whole schoo
What does it really feel like to land in Japan at 16, not knowing if your Japanese is good enough, and stay for six weeks? In this episode of Life Exchanged: Stories of Understanding , host Kelsey Ross sits down with Mal
In this episode of Life Exchanged: Stories of Understanding , host Kelsey Ross sits down with Joy Cade , Virtual Orientations Chairperson at YFU and former exchange student to Japan. Joy shares her remarkable journey stu
It's been one whole year of stories, exchanges, and lives changed — and we're celebrating with YOU. In this special one-year anniversary episode, host Kelsey Ross reflects on an incredible first year of Life Exchanged: S
In this episode of Life Exchanged: Stories of Understanding , host Kelsey Ross sits down with Alexandra Tague, a CBYX alum who spent 2009–2010 living and studying in Germany through Youth For Understanding (YFU). Alex sh
In this episode of Life Exchanged: Stories of Understanding , Thai exchange alumna Tanya Thabjan shares the story of how her year studying abroad in the United States transformed her life. Tanya reflects on the challenge
In this inspiring episode of Life Exchanged: Stories of Understanding , host Kelsey Ross sits down with high school student Ireland Emerson to explore her life-changing experience studying abroad in Germany through the Y
In this special Podcasthon edition of Life Exchanged: Stories of Understanding , host Kelsey Ross sits down with Scott Messing — President & CEO of Youth For Understanding USA — to explore the life-changing power of cult
In this episode of Life Exchanged: Stories of Understanding, host Kelsey Ross speaks with Matt Burke, a YFU alum and CBYX scholarship recipient, about his transformative year studying abroad in Germany. From his early in
In this episode of Life Exchanged: Stories of Understanding, host Kelsey Ross chats with Julika Enslin, a YFU alum from Germany who spent a transformative year studying abroad in Michigan. Julika shares how her curiosity
In this episode of Life Exchanged: Stories of Understanding, host Kelsey Ross speaks with Tyler McCamley, a YFU France alumnus whose exchange journey began with a newspaper article and a bookmark—and led to a life transf
In this heartfelt episode of Life Exchanged: Stories of Understanding, host Kelsey Ross sits down with Megan Herndon—YFU alumna, host mother, and volunteer—to explore the transformative power of cultural exchange. Megan
In this episode of Life Exchanged: Stories of Understanding, host Kelsey Ross chats with Simone Majekodunmi, a 16-year-old YFU exchange student from Texas who spent six unforgettable weeks studying abroad in Japan. Simon
In this episode of Life Exchanged: Stories of Understanding, host Kelsey Ross chats with Marina, a YFU exchange student from California who spent a transformative year studying abroad in Austria. Marina shares how her pa
In this episode of Life Exchanged: Stories of Understanding, host Kelsey Ross chats with Keith Hehr, a host parent from Iowa who has welcomed international exchange students through YFU for six out of the last ten years.
In this episode of Life Exchanged: Stories of Understanding, host Kelsey Ross chats with Christian, a YFU alum from Germany who spent a transformative year studying abroad in Argentina. Inspired by his sister’s exchange
In this episode of Life Exchanged: Stories of Understanding, host Kelsey Ross chats with Liz Zirk—a YFU alum, longtime volunteer, and soon-to-be host parent—whose exchange year in Germany in the late ’90s was anything bu
In this heartfelt episode of Life Exchanged: Stories of Understanding, host Kelsey Ross sits down with Carrie and Justin Stiltner, a couple from Clyde, Ohio, who share their journey of hosting exchange students through Y
In this episode of Life Exchanged: Stories of Understanding, host Kelsey Ross speaks with Greta, a 17-year-old CBYX scholarship recipient from Germany, about her unforgettable exchange year in the United States. From ove
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Life Exchanged: Stories of Understanding is hosted by YFU USA. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 36 episodes.
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